Friday, July 14, 2017

Trolling will get worse online

Experts predict that trolling will only get worse online in the future:

"Harassment, trolls, and an overall tone of griping, distrust, and
disgust" will stay the norm on the internet over the next decade,
experts told the Pew Research Center in a new report...

The Pew Research Center and the Imagining the Internet Center at Elon
University surveyed about 1,500 technology experts, scholars, corporate
practitioners and government leaders in July and August 2016 for the
study, and the results are pretty demoralizing.Forty-two percent of respondents thought the internet would stay the
same sometimes less-than-pleasant place over the next 10 years, while
another 39 percent said they thought the internet would become a more
negative environment. Just under 20 percent of experts thought the
internet had any chance of getting better over the next decade when it
comes to harassment and trolling.